Up to four rounds of voting expected with history suggesting white smoke might be seen today

• Explainer: how does the conclave work?
• Leading candidates to be the next pope

If you want to see the latest scenes from the Vatican, there is now a live stream showing St Peter’s Square and the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel pinned at the top of this page.

What makes today slightly more tricky to follow is that while we have four rounds of voting, we may not get smoke after every one of them.